Watch Your Language...

This is an excerpt from a book I am reading called
Loving The Little Years Motherhood In The Trenches by Rachel Jancovic
This was really convicting to me in the phase of life I am in right now and I know I have friends in the same boat. So I thought I would share! Hope you get as much out of it as I did.

" ....I had better stop being overwhelmed.

God gave me this to do. I may not be overwhelmed about it. I can try as hard as I can, and maybe fail sometimes. I can try as hard as I can and fall asleep at the dinner table. I can try as hard as I can and be completely burned out at the end of the day. But I may not be overwhelmed. Actually, I may be overwhelmed, but I may not say that I am overwhelmed! The words have a real power over us. If you say it, you allow it for yourself. You give yourself that little bit of room to say, "But I can't!"

When you get up in the morning and the house is a mess, and the kids are being a little edgy, and you didn't get to the grocery store, do you like to drape yourself across the work that God gave you and whimper? Or do you just dive in? Do you take a few steps and then go limp? Do you like to dwell on the discouragement? Do you spend time not working but tallying the work that you think is too much for you?

...I was going to try and not say that anymore, not even to myself. It was time for me to adjust to the work load that God had given me. You have to know that you are giving up those moments you were allowing yourself. Deciding not to say it is different than never actually being in over your head. But God loves a cheerful worker. I am still in over my head. Actually, most of the time! But deciding to not wallow in the fact has removed one of the biggest obstacles to my work-my own calculations of how hard the job is.

If you decide to do this. Tell the people you are most likely to complain to. Tell them you are not going to say "______" anymore. Whatever terminology you use to allow yourself a little self-pity. It is pretty funny how much this feels like jumping off the high dive, and it can make you realize how much you were using that little excuse. I am sure I say "overwhelmed" from time to time, but it is no longer that little crutch for droopiness it once was to me. "

So there you have it. This is me (Talia), telling you, I am going to try to not use this word anymore. And I really hope it helps me to get over myself and depend on God!!